Information Modelling and Knowledge Bases Xiii by Hannu Kangassalo

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This booklet constitutes the refereed court cases of the twelfth foreign convention on man made Intelligence and Symbolic Computation, AISC 2014, held in Seville, Spain, in December 2014. The 15 complete papers awarded including 2 invited papers have been conscientiously reviewed and chosen from 22 submissions.

This publication constitutes the refereed lawsuits of the 3rd foreign convention on Statistical Language and Speech Processing, SLSP 2015, held in Budapest, Hungary, in November 2015. The 26 complete papers awarded including invited talks have been conscientiously reviewed and chosen from seventy one submissions.

Can be used to group like entities or to select entities based on some qualification. This can mimick generalisation/specialisation Table 4—Concepts for the Functional Data Model Semantic Data Model The semantic data model (SDM) [39] was designed to improve the modelling of semantics in data modelling languages. It is one of the first data modelling languages to incorporate the concept called class. [2] "The following principles of database organization underlie the design of SDM. (1) A database is to be viewed as a collection of entities that correspond to the actual objects in the application environment.

We selected the ontology by Roderick Chisholm based on what appeared to be a commonality with a representative group of classical data modelling languages. We have found that because of the quality of terms and concepts found in the ontology it was very useful in analysing the S. Milton et al. / On the Study of Data Modelling Languages 35 data modelling languages. Further, there is a good degree of overlap between the five data modelling languages that we have studied and Chisholm's ontology. The overlap is not total but does cover the core parts of terms and concepts from the ontology.

Essentially, the class structure exists as subtypes after description. In other words, it is an optimisation technique rather than a modelling technique. It appears that the intent of NIAM through this discussion is to allow classes to emerge from entities. Additional to the static elements described here, there are a number of constraints that are designed to control and maintain the veracity of information modelled and to convey the meaning of specific models created using the data modelling framework.